Two-Week Turnaround Tour Hitting Austin
Written by Steve Muccini   


T3's Joshua Mills on location in Tampa BayHere is some grassroots filmmaking at its best.

Do some networking with Hollywood and New York's finest filmmakers when they visit town during the SXSW Film Festival and the Austin Film Festival, and you will detect a common thread when you ask them about the Austin filmmaking scene: Austin filmmakers are highly passionate about their art and they will do whatever it takes to make their film. New filmmakers barter their services with other new filmmakers and the talent often works in exchange for experience and footage for their actor reel. Austin can be described as a grassroots kind of a city in a lot of categories and filmmaking is not an exception. So, if you happen to be part of this vibrant community in Austin, there is a pretty good chance that this filmmaking event will be right up your alley.

 
Filmmaking certainly has its share of contests, speed filmmaking projects, and festivals dedicated to getting people together to make a movie. This one, however, offers a pretty unique twist. Get a couple of community managers together, chuck them in an RV, and send them around the country for seven months to make movies. It sounds like a dream job and a hell job all wrapped into one. The project is called the Two-week Turnaround Tour, or shortened, T3.
 
T3 will be visiting a total of 14 cities (including Austin May 15-28) over their seven-month stint on the road. The challenge is to build your crew and cast along the way to make your movie in each city. Preferably before you show up in the next city to shoot. It pulls together aspects of the 48 Hour Film Project or Bloodshots with online community builders, like Filmaka. As the writer and director for a finalist in Filmaka's online film contest, (see One Good Person Worth knowing, our Filmaka entry), I can say that filmmakers are competitive and proud. For last year's 48 Hour Filmmaking Project in Austin, we wanted everyone we knew to see the instant comedic classic, "Dial P for Party" which we were able to pull off in just 48 hours. Being part of a team that produces a really cool movie earns you bragging rights that you can spread at a web 2.0 rate of speed. (Case and point, I just did it twice.)
 
T3 will be coming to Austin on May 15-28, so save the date(s) because you will want to be part of this one.
 
Here is what they need from Austin:
-Actors
-Camera operators
-Writers
-Editors
-Grip
-Gaf
-PAs
-Locations
-and pretty much everything else you need to make a movie...except for equipment (you don't hear that everyday). More information on the dates they'll blaze into Austin is located at the Filmblazer site.
 
So to the Austin team: make us proud!
 
 

Steve Muccini is a writer, producer and actor in Austin, Texas. He is president of SpotEdge Media and HomeSaleVideo.com.

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